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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>, Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>,
	kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	general@lists.openfabrics.org,
	Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
	Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>,
	steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com
Subject: Re: [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps (f.e. for XPmem)
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:42:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080228004226.GE8091@v2.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802271440530.13186@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 02:43:41PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Nope. unmap_mapping_range is already handled by the range callbacks.

But they're called with atomic=1 on anything but anonymous memory. I
understood Andrew asked to remove the atomic param and to allow
sleeping for all kind of vmas. I also understood certain XPMEM
customers asked to use XPMEM on something more than anonymous memory.

> The situation that you are imagining has already been dealt with [..]

I guess there's some misunderstanding, I think Nick was referring to
the above problem.

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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	steiner@sgi.com, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>,
	Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
	kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com,
	Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
	general@lists.openfabrics.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps (f.e. for XPmem)
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:42:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080228004226.GE8091@v2.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802271440530.13186@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 02:43:41PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Nope. unmap_mapping_range is already handled by the range callbacks.

But they're called with atomic=1 on anything but anonymous memory. I
understood Andrew asked to remove the atomic param and to allow
sleeping for all kind of vmas. I also understood certain XPMEM
customers asked to use XPMEM on something more than anonymous memory.

> The situation that you are imagining has already been dealt with [..]

I guess there's some misunderstanding, I think Nick was referring to
the above problem.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>, Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>,
	kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	general@lists.openfabrics.org,
	Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
	Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>,
	steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com
Subject: Re: [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps (f.e. for XPmem)
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:42:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080228004226.GE8091@v2.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802271440530.13186@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 02:43:41PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Nope. unmap_mapping_range is already handled by the range callbacks.

But they're called with atomic=1 on anything but anonymous memory. I
understood Andrew asked to remove the atomic param and to allow
sleeping for all kind of vmas. I also understood certain XPMEM
customers asked to use XPMEM on something more than anonymous memory.

> The situation that you are imagining has already been dealt with [..]

I guess there's some misunderstanding, I think Nick was referring to
the above problem.

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Thread overview: 258+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-15  6:48 [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V7 Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15  6:48 ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15  6:49 ` [patch 1/6] mmu_notifier: Core code Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15  6:49   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16  3:37   ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16  3:37     ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16  3:37     ` [ofa-general] " Andrew Morton
2008-02-16  8:45     ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-16  8:45       ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-16  8:45       ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-16  8:56       ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16  8:56         ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16  8:56         ` [ofa-general] " Andrew Morton
2008-02-16  9:21         ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-16  9:21           ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-16  9:21           ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-16 10:41     ` Brice Goglin
2008-02-16 10:41       ` Brice Goglin
2008-02-16 10:58       ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16 10:58         ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16 19:31         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 19:31           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 19:21     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 19:21       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 19:21       ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-02-17  3:01       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-17  3:01         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-17  3:01         ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-17 12:24         ` Robin Holt
2008-02-17 12:24           ` Robin Holt
2008-02-17 12:24           ` Robin Holt
2008-02-17  5:04     ` Doug Maxey
2008-02-17  5:04       ` Doug Maxey
2008-02-17  5:04       ` Doug Maxey
2008-02-18 22:33   ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-18 22:33     ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-18 22:33     ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
2008-02-15  6:49 ` [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15  6:49   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16  3:37   ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16  3:37     ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16  3:37     ` [ofa-general] " Andrew Morton
2008-02-16 19:26     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 19:26       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 19:26       ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-02-19  8:54   ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-19  8:54     ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-19  8:54     ` [ofa-general] " Nick Piggin
2008-02-19 13:34     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-19 13:34       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-19 13:34       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-27 22:23       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-27 22:23         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-27 22:23         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-27 23:57         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-27 23:57           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-27 23:57           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-19 23:08   ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-19 23:08     ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-19 23:08     ` [ofa-general] " Nick Piggin
2008-02-20  1:00     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-20  1:00       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-20  1:00       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-20  3:00       ` Robin Holt
2008-02-20  3:00         ` Robin Holt
2008-02-20  3:00         ` Robin Holt
2008-02-20  3:11         ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-20  3:11           ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-20  3:11           ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-20  3:19           ` Robin Holt
2008-02-20  3:19             ` Robin Holt
2008-02-20  3:19             ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-02-27 22:39       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-27 22:39         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-27 22:39         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  0:38         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  0:38           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  0:38           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-27 22:35     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-27 22:35       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-27 22:35       ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-02-27 22:42       ` Jack Steiner
2008-02-27 22:42         ` Jack Steiner
2008-02-27 22:42         ` [ofa-general] " Jack Steiner
2008-02-28  0:10       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  0:10         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  0:10         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  0:11       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  0:11         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  0:11         ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  0:14         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  0:14           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  0:14           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  0:52           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  0:52             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  0:52             ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  1:03             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  1:03               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  1:03               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  1:10               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  1:10                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  1:10                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28 18:43                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28 18:43                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28 18:43                   ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29  0:55                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29  0:55                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29  0:55                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29  0:59                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29  0:59                       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29  0:59                       ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 13:13                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 13:13                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 13:13                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 19:55                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 19:55                           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 19:55                           ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 20:17                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 20:17                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 20:17                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 21:03                             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 21:03                               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 21:03                               ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 21:23                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 21:23                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 21:23                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 21:29                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 21:29                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 21:29                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 21:34                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 21:34                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 21:34                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 21:48                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 21:48                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 21:48                                     ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 22:12                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 22:12                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 22:12                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 22:41                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 22:41                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 22:41                                         ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28 10:53             ` Robin Holt
2008-02-28 10:53               ` Robin Holt
2008-02-28 10:53               ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-03-03  5:11       ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03  5:11         ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03  5:11         ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 19:28         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 19:28           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 19:28           ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 19:50           ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 19:50             ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-04 18:58             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04 18:58               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04 18:58               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-05  0:52               ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-05  0:52                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-15  6:49 ` [patch 3/6] mmu_notifier: invalidate_page callbacks Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15  6:49   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16  3:37   ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16  3:37     ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16  3:37     ` [ofa-general] " Andrew Morton
2008-02-16 11:07     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-16 11:07       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-16 11:07       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-16 19:22     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 19:22       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 19:22       ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 19:54       ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-16 19:54         ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-16 19:54         ` [ofa-general] " Avi Kivity
2008-02-19  8:46       ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-19  8:46         ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-19  8:46         ` [ofa-general] " Nick Piggin
2008-02-19 13:30         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-19 13:30           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-19 13:30           ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-18  1:51     ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-18  1:51       ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-18  1:51       ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-15  6:49 ` [patch 4/6] mmu_notifier: Skeleton driver for a simple mmu_notifier Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15  6:49   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15  6:49 ` [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps (f.e. for XPmem) Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15  6:49   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16  3:37   ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16  3:37     ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16  3:37     ` [ofa-general] " Andrew Morton
2008-02-16 19:28     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 19:28       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 19:28       ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-02-19 23:55   ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-19 23:55     ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-19 23:55     ` [ofa-general] " Nick Piggin
2008-02-20  3:12     ` Robin Holt
2008-02-20  3:12       ` Robin Holt
2008-02-20  3:12       ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-02-20  3:51       ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-20  3:51         ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-20  3:51         ` [ofa-general] " Nick Piggin
2008-02-20  9:00         ` Robin Holt
2008-02-20  9:00           ` Robin Holt
2008-02-20  9:00           ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-02-20  9:05           ` Robin Holt
2008-02-20  9:05             ` Robin Holt
2008-02-20  9:05             ` Robin Holt
2008-02-21  4:20           ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-21  4:20             ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-21 10:58             ` Robin Holt
2008-02-21 10:58               ` Robin Holt
2008-02-21 10:58               ` Robin Holt
2008-02-26  6:11               ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-26  6:11                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-26  6:11                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-26  7:21                 ` [ofa-general] " Gleb Natapov
2008-02-26  7:21                   ` Gleb Natapov
2008-02-26  7:21                   ` Gleb Natapov
2008-02-26  8:52                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-26  8:52                     ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-26  8:52                     ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-26  9:38                     ` Gleb Natapov
2008-02-26  9:38                       ` Gleb Natapov
2008-02-26  9:38                       ` Gleb Natapov
2008-02-26  9:52                       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-26  9:52                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-26  9:52                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-26 12:28                     ` Robin Holt
2008-02-26 12:28                       ` Robin Holt
2008-02-26 12:28                       ` Robin Holt
2008-02-26 12:29                 ` Robin Holt
2008-02-26 12:29                   ` Robin Holt
2008-02-26 12:29                   ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-02-27 22:43     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-27 22:43       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-27 22:43       ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  0:42       ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2008-02-28  0:42         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  0:42         ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  1:01         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  1:01           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  1:01           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15  6:49 ` [patch 6/6] mmu_rmap_notifier: Skeleton for complex driver that uses its own rmaps Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15  6:49   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-16 10:48 ` [PATCH] KVM swapping with MMU Notifiers V7 Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-16 10:48   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-16 10:48   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-16 11:08   ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16 11:08     ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16 11:08     ` [ofa-general] " Andrew Morton
2008-02-18 12:17     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-18 12:17       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-16 11:51   ` Robin Holt
2008-02-16 11:51     ` Robin Holt
2008-02-16 11:51     ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-02-18 12:35     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-18 12:35       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-18 12:35       ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-08 22:06 [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6 Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06 ` [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps (f.e. for XPmem) Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06   ` Christoph Lameter

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